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Linux 5.6 Is The Most Exciting Kernel In Years With So Many New Features

posted by Fnord666 on Monday February 10 2020, @07:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the lots-of-new-and-shiny dept.

spiraldancing writes:

www.phoronix.com

This kernel is simply huge: there is so many new and improved features with this particular release that it's mind-boggling. I'm having difficulty remembering such a time a kernel release was so large.

The quick summary of Linux 5.6 changes include: WireGuard, USB4, open-source NVIDIA RTX 2000 series support, AMD Pollock enablement, lots of new hardware support, a lot of file-system / storage work, multi-path TCP bits are finally going mainline, Year 2038 work beginning to wrap-up for 32-bit systems, the new AMD TEE driver for tapping the Secure Processor, the first signs of AMD Zen 3, better AMD Zen/Zen2 thermal and power reporting under Linux, at long last having an in-kernel SATA drive temperature for HWMON, and a lot of other kernel infrastructure improvements.

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  • (Score: 2) by pvanhoof on Tuesday February 11 2020, @06:14PM (1 child)

    by pvanhoof (4638) on Tuesday February 11 2020, @06:14PM (#956915) Homepage

    Qt's Wayland compositor [doc.qt.io] is GPL, or LGPL 3 not LGPL 2. If you want a commercial license then you can find information about that . [doc.qt.io]

    For a lot of modern (embedded) UI development in QML you need Qt's Wayland compositor.

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  • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Wednesday February 12 2020, @12:30AM

    by Pino P (4721) on Wednesday February 12 2020, @12:30AM (#957022) Journal

    Unless you're trying to lock down your device the same way a TiVo DVR or a video game console is locked down, using an LGPLv3 library in an otherwise proprietary application is fine. That's what LGPL is made for: mixing copylefted and proprietary software in one process.